European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday August 29, i968 wave lengths czechs Amon them a Soldier listen in Prague to latest news broadcasts left photo after their leaders returned from mos cow. At right a Young czech puts a the czechoslovakian Flag on the Iron Flag of a Monument in he downtown Section of the City. czechs feel betrayed by Moscow Pattii. By Hanns Neuerburg Prague a this is the end of All our Hopes said a grim looking Man in a crumpled shirt. This is the he turned off the transistor radio which he had held up High for the Benefit of a crowd that had listened in seeming gloom As president Ludvik Svobod Amade it Plain that soviet forces will remain in Czechoslovakia at least for the time being. Minutes later two Long haired youngsters ceremoniously re moved a Large portrait of the president from the front of the statue of St. Wenceslas on Prague s largest Square. The statue of the Bohemia King who gained sainthood has become a National shrine since 14-year-old boy Zdenek Pri Hoda died at its base in a Hail of russian bullets the first Day of the soviet red Banner with the name of president Svoboda part chief Alexander Dubcek and Premier Oldrich Cernik was Leftin place on the Monument sur rounded by throngs of people heatedly discussing the new turn of that away too two Bull necked shirt sleeved me shouted. We Don t want to see it any one yelled,"traitors." let s wait until Dubcek has spoken too a bespectacled youth joined the discussion. Give him a after three hours Dubcek also had been on the radio and the Banner was taken away As Fereall pictures of the reformist leaders. The people that had been on the verge of Triumph when the russian tanks withdrew fro strategic Points in the morning had suddenly slumped into Deso russians must get out immediately one plump Ger Man speaking woman said repeating the sentence three times. Why Don t we just All stay Calm for two months until they have left the youth with the glasses , wait an elderly Man mocked the youth. You won thave to Ait very Long until they would come helicopters whirled overhead presumably to drop More leaflets which hardly any dream of different Model socialism shattered Redden err picks at tin i lieu the elderly Man said. And i assure you the tanks air nut very far away will of do now a newsman asked three Herman speaking bark to one said. But it will be Dune list has already Hern talk of a general strike hut it will not come Lluc of to mos-ihi1 second Man. They stay in the let the govern Liat would not la every Imp. They can k 14 million Why did cow said Why did t country an take Over by arrest by Henry Shapiro Moscow up1 the so Viet military intervention in Czechoslovakia and the com Promise settlement that Fol Lowed it tuesday have shattered the dream of some czechoslovak of setting up anew and different Model socialist was what Alexander Dubcek and his new Genera Tion of communist leaders set out to do when they ousted the stalinist Antonin Novotny and proposed to erect a communist regime different from those of their neighbors Only in that it could have been More broadly based democratic and lib although Dubcek has had to Retreat from his program an make serious concessions to his Warsaw pact allies the Post invasion picture As spelled out by the Moscow soviet czech talks is not entirely negative for the czech czechs have scored recognition of the Dubcek regime whose popularity has been abundantly illustrated Dur ing the crucial Days since aug. 21. The czechs will have Muchmore latitude in their Domestic policies than East Germany Bulgaria and Romania coun tries where Many of the Stalin Era practices linger. Stars and stripes it columns i j r11jcomment i the Liberal policies pro claimed at the january and May plenums of the czechoslovak Central committee have received a form of new Sanction. There will be no return the presence of foreign troops abhorrent As it May to to czechs will not be too Muchin evidence physically. Soviet forces in Poland and Hungary for example have a Talent for making themselves invisible a they live mostly in their bar Racks and have no Contact wit the local population. The partial restoration of censorship will affect Only mat ters concerning relations with socialist countries which Al though a serious setback from the Heady Days of Early August will still give the czechs More Freedom expression than some of their neighbors enjoy. If the Moscow agreement solemnly witnessed by All the chiefs of All the branches of Power in the six Warsaw pact countries is enforced there willbe no soviet civilian or military interference in the Domestic affairs of Czechoslovakia As an anti Dubcek regime might have tolerated. Hut the scale was t i p p e against the czechs in the Fol lowing respects Warsaw pact troops will remain indefinitely. Chances of free communications betwee Czechoslovakia and her Western neighbors West Germany an Austria will be limited. Party controls on local regional party organizations will be tightened and the variety of clubs fraternal organizations and private societies which mushroomed in recent months will have to toe the party linear to closed that is if the Moscow agreement is observed. This time the russians will probably try to enforce the pledges made at Bratislava for coordinating Czechoslovakia s foreign and economic policies which Means no immediate de Tente or expanded commercial relations with the West particularly Bonn. There was no provision for sanctions against violations of this undertaking in the Bratislava declaration. It was not spelled out in the Moscow agreement but it was reported that some person Nel changes will be made in the Dubcek regime by gradually eliminating a few individual who have been Mast Active in criticizing the soviet Union an Leninist ideology. He pointed at one of the count less slogans and cartoons St Cito the shop windows lining he Square. It said tanks Ian shoot but not Covern it is a Eluah worse than in 1939 when the a i Yal us the Man added Cine then it could Noi lat Vonjj cause of the imminent War. Wit will last for a Hundred i ars. 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